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posted by martyb on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-don't-see-what-you-did-there dept.

BBC:

More than 7,000 people still watch TV in black and white more than half a century after colour broadcasts began.

London has the most TV licences for black and white sets at 1,768, followed by 431 in the West Midlands and 390 in Greater Manchester.

A total of 7,161 UK households have failed to start watching in colour despite transmissions starting in 1967.

BBC2 was the first channel to regularly broadcast in colour from July that year with the Wimbledon tennis tournament.

The number of black and white licences has almost halved in the past five years and is down from 212,000 in 2000.

Aha! Those must be the last Manichaeans.


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  • (Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Thursday November 08 2018, @11:38PM (1 child)

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Thursday November 08 2018, @11:38PM (#759609) Journal

    Would not be surprised if they're still paying memberships for…1980s video rental places.

    I'd be extremely surprised, simply because I can't imagine how they would've survived after the arrival of chains like Blockbuster.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Mykl on Friday November 09 2018, @12:32AM

    by Mykl (1112) on Friday November 09 2018, @12:32AM (#759622)

    I'd be extremely surprised, simply because I can't imagine how they would've survived after the arrival of chains like Blockbuster.

    Easy - they were propped up by elderly people who just paid their bills without checking!